Conferencing Industry News Article

[February 21, 2013]

SAN ANTONIO --(Business Wire)--

Health systems today are under more pressure than ever to improve
clinical and business outcomes and increase market share, often through
physician group and facility acquisitions. But, integrating and
delivering relevant clinical data across multiple geographies and care
settings has
remained a cumbersome and costly obstacle.

"Most health systems today are working with a dizzying array of
different EMRs, medical devices and other systems, all from different
vendors, and are unable to really unlock the true value of these
investments. At the same time, the days of physicians - particularly
today's overstretched specialists - practicing in one facility are
numbered, as they are increasingly required to deliver care in multiple
or remote locations," said
Alan Portela, AirStrip CEO. "As demonstrated through the commitment
from Dignity Health, AirStrip ONE leverages the power of mobility to
deliver the industry's first enterprise-wide, vendor-agnostic mobile
interoperability solution."

AirStrip ONE will first be deployed at Dignity Health, a San
Francisco-based health system with more than 300 care sites in 17
states, working together to co-develop AirStrip ONE uses in the primary
care setting. The first implementations will be at Chandler Regional
Medical Center (Chandler, Ariz.) and Mercy Gilbert Medical Center
(Gilbert, Ariz.) in support of the recently-announced Medicare
Accountable Care Organization (ACO), the Arizona Care Network. Extending
the clinical and platform components of AirStrip ONE, Dignity Health and
AirStrip will next mobilize St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in
Phoenix, Ariz., including a critical integration with EMR data from
Dignity Health's house-wide Cerner (News - Alert) system and Allscripts ambulatory
system.

By enabling their physicians to become truly mobile, AirStrip ONE will
allow Dignity Health to extend its delivery of specialty care and areas
of expertise across its facilities, while maintaining contact with their
patient data in near-real-time. AirStrip will also provide ongoing
support of Dignity Health's ACO strategy, including its
Arizona-based ACO with Vanguard Health, announced in July 2012.

AirStrip ONE: Breaking Down Barriers to Clinical Transformation

AirStrip ONE provides the architecture, platform and user experience
that delivers on the promises of mobility. It allows for scalable
clinical solutions that reflect the working styles and workflows of busy
clinicians, while enabling teams to achieve improvements in key metrics
such as reduced readmissions. AirStrip ONE also reduces the burden on
providers' IT organizations, as the solution is managed by AirStrip's
Transformation Services team.

The complete AirStrip enterprise mobility solution includes:

A set of Clinical Mobility Solutions

AirStrip ONE OB, for labor and delivery;

AirStrip ONE Cardiology, to aid decision-making from
pre-hospital/EMS through Emergency Services, inpatient care,
critical care and discharge. Recently
extended through a partnership with CardioNet, AirStrip ONE
Cardiology is central to providing care across the entire cardiac
care continuum;

About AirStrip

AirStripTM (www.airstriptech.com)
provides a complete, vendor- and data source-agnostic enterprise-wide
clinical mobility solution, which enables clinicians to improve the
health of individuals and populations. With deep clinical expertise and
strong roots in mobile technology and data integration, AirStrip is
empowering the nation's leading health systems as the industry continues
to evolve to new business models, accountable care and shared risk.
Based in San Antonio, Texas, AirStrip allows health systems to unlock
the full potential of their existing technology investments with a
complete mobility solution that provides access to critical patient data
across the care continuum. AirStrip is backed by investments from
Sequoia Capital, Qualcomm (News - Alert), Inc., Hospital Corporation of America (HCA)
and the Wellcome Trust.

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